Thanks! Now go place your vote... :p
Andrew Zeneski wrote:
Nice job...
Andrew
On Apr 23, 2007, at 5:46 PM, Adrian Crum wrote:
Yes, of course. I granted the license to it all.
Andrew Zeneski wrote:
Adrian,
Are the images you included in your JIRA bundle free for use?
Andrew
On Apr 23, 2007, at 1:22 PM, Adrian Crum wrote:
A lot of progress has been made since the last update.
The Webtools and Accounting components have been refactored. One
of the committers re-introduced deprecated styles in the Webtools
component (*cough* Andrew *cough*) so I had to go through it
again. Committers - please watch out for this. Let's not go
backwards.
The masthead (header), main navigation bar, and footer have been
refactored. The new HTML markup makes the page layout extremely
flexible. For instance, you can now move the masthead, main
navigation, and footer to other locations on the screen, just by
making a few changes to the main style sheet.
If you have been updating your local copy of OFBiz regularly, you
probably get the impression that the main navigation bar is having
an identity crisis. Actually, we're just trying to come up with a
style that everyone likes. If anyone would like to contribute
their own style, they are welcome to do so.
I submitted a new style for the project which has gotten some
initial positive feedback - https://issues.apache.org/jira/ browse/
OFBIZ-918. Go check it out and vote for it if you like it.
The refactoring effort has made a serious impact on the amount of
markup generated. Pages that used to contain 100 to 200 DIVs now
have 12 to 20.
Looking to the future -
I started taking a look at the Order and Product components. They
have hundreds of files and I believe some of them are shared with
the eCommerce component. I'm not sure where to go from here on
those two. If I refactor them, then that might break eCommerce -
since its style sheet doesn't contain the new styles.
I'm working on some ideas for a collapsible masthead. It will
enable a user to free up more screen space.
I hope to take a look at the menu widget soon. I'd like to have it
support nested menus - so that we can have fancy cascaded or
flyout menus.
-Adrian